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Click to view larger Alan Preston Anita Garcia Morales and I met a detractor at a workshop we led on race and class at the 2016 Conference on Ending Homelessness. Some of the stuff you guys are saying about class is true,” he said, “but I disagree with 9 ...

Click to view all images Alan Preston Shawn Wilson Photo by Martha Tesema It’s not every day that I get to spend an uninterrupted hour talking to a vendor. But whenever I do, I’m reminded of why I work at Real Change. I gave Shawn a ride to a fundraising ...

Click to view larger Alan Preston When I tell people that circulation is falling at Real Change and that we are having a hard time recruiting new vendors, they are incredulous. “How is that even possible?” they invariably ask. “With homelessness on the ri ...

Click to view larger Alan Preston Where is the damn moral outrage? During the Jan. 29 One Night Count, 4,505 people in King County were counted as homeless. That’s an increase of 84 percent over the 2,442 people counted on the One Night Count just five ye ...

When Real Change vendor Brenda Williams was brutally beaten last month in a domestic assault that left her permanently blind, she could have become angry and bitter. Instead, she is grateful to be alive. “They told me I was flatline when I was in the amb ...

Click to view larger Alan Preston The scene was surreal on Nov. 27 when I showed up at Westlake Park. Black Lives Matter activists and allies circled up next to the holiday carousel, their calls and responses — “Whose lives matter?” “Black Lives Matter” — ...

Click to view larger Alan Preston Shelly Cohen and Tracey “Katmondu” Williams both participated in a workshop that Real Change recently co-sponsored on the intersection of class and race. Both Shelly and Tracey were raised in middle-class families; both m ...

Click to view larger Alan Preston As I stepped outside my local QFC on Rainier Avenue one evening last week, a Real Change vendor shouted angrily at a man getting into his car: “I damn well would if I could.” I approached the vendor, Vern, and he was visi ...

Click to view larger Alan Preston Not once, in my 10 years of leading class and classism trainings, have I observed the kind of emotional response that occurred when Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists interrupted Bernie Sanders at the recent Social Securi ...

Click to view larger Alan Preston Last week, Real Change’s Board of Directors passed our first ever vision statement: We envision a just, caring and inclusive community where people are no longer marginalized by race and class and have the means to live w ...